Postman always plays nice

Happy International Women’s Day! Australia Post chief
Ahmed Fahour
chose to mark the occasion with a bolshie address at an Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch on Thursday, canvassing gender issues, albeit briefly. “If that period did exist," our postmaster-general said sceptically, “when dad was at work and mum was at home cooking and waiting . . . and the postman came and knocked on the door, if that period did exist, it certainly doesn’t now." True, that. This may be Rear Window’s most glorious anti-white picket fence moment to date.

Fahour also shared his HR philosophy: “I live in this world where happy staff leads to happy customers, which leads to a happy shareholder."

“Sounds like a version of [the adage] happy wife, happy life," joked the chamber’s president, Kim Jacobs. “I’m not even gonna go there."